I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

[From below comes the noise of a door slamming.]

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

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Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.

The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town.

How can I hold you close enough?

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me light glinting on broken glass.

A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.

Nora: Torvald, don't look at me like that! Torvald: Can't I look at my richest treasure? At all that beauty that's mine, mine alone-completely and utterly.

There are people one loves and others one likes to talk to

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth, Author

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.

People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.

However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are those who are morally diseased..

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.

Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me." Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters.

Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.

You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something—with something that is a little like love.

Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend. Peter Stockmann: Almost—yes!

First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.

To think it, wish it, even want it — but do it! No, that I cannot understand.

What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest.

You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.

That is the only relation in life that is not subject to the law of change.

The forests avenge themselves.

No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.

To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!

But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!

You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness's in a broken jar?

Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me—supply what is wanting in me—be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.

The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer;—they sleep, they sit half shadow- high;—with them will we strive!

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

And though I have sailed my boat hard aground, O, it was so grand to be sailing!

SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives—so has it gone with us twain.

It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”

“A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.”

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” -

“There’s gonna be some stuff you gonna see thats gonna make it hard to smile in the future, but through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit…remember that.”

“I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.”